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As investment portfolio grows and as infrastructure projects increase in number, become larger, more complex, and diverse, it is important to improve the capacity of key institutions. Stronger managerial and technical capacities in areas, such as risk management, pricing, and treasury operations, are essential especially when an institution plays a nodal role in private sector financing in a growing infrastructure environment.

Project Number: 42180-016
Project Name: Third Public-Private Infrastructure Development Facility (Tranche 1)
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New products can benefit from market and demand analysis that provide a basis for designing products that are responsive to the needs of the market. The introduction of take-out financing under this project did not benefit from such analysis. Uptake for take-out financing as designed under Tranche 1 was low. This highlights the role of market and demand analysis that provide valuable inputs in designing and introducing a new financial product that is responsive to market demand.

Project Number: 42180-016
Project Name: Third Public-Private Infrastructure Development Facility (Tranche 1)
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Projects that introduce new technologies require realistic timelines for design. Familiarization and adoption of new technologies, completion of trial runs, and commercial production take time, and this needs to be accounted in project design

Project Number: 45273-001
Project Name: Financing Brick Kiln Efficiency Improvement Project
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Financial intermediary projects that finance the adoption of new technologies can have better outcome if these are supported by a TA dedicated exclusively for implementation. The introduction and adoption of new technology require capacity building on the technical aspects, trial runs and roll-out of commercial production, and information and awareness raising for both public and private entities, entrepreneurs, and association members

Project Number: 45273-001
Project Name: Financing Brick Kiln Efficiency Improvement Project
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A thorough demand analysis of specific technologies during preparation, along with adequate technical analysis and adequate stakeholder consultations, contributes to better project design.

Project Number: 45273-001
Project Name: Financing Brick Kiln Efficiency Improvement Project
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Well-developed, in-house expertise in appraising infrastructure subprojects, business development, risk management, and monitoring supported by good governance contributes significantly to effective implementation of an infrastructure financing facility. Over the years, IDCOL demonstrated this type of institutional capacity especially in power subprojects.

Project Number: 42180-013
Project Name: Second Public–Private Infrastructure Development Facility
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At the sector level, a conducive policy, legal, and institutional environment for PPP facilitates could enhance PSP in infrastructure services. PSP is facilitated when there are (i) a suitable policy and strategy for PPP, (ii) an established and professionally managed PPP Office that facilitates PPP processes, and

Project Number: 42180-013
Project Name: Second Public–Private Infrastructure Development Facility
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Adequate risk assessment and provisions for mitigation measures on safeguards at design stage are critical requirements for project readiness. Oftentimes, these prerequisites (e.g., analysis on the need for land acquisition), if not sufficiently done, could contribute to implementation delays. Such analysis could include appropriate assessment of project target areas, including land availability, as well as meeting the pertinent social safeguards prior to site access and/or civil works.

Project Number: 40534-013
Project Name: Second Crop Diversification Project
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Establishing a project performance monitoring system (PPMS) allows better tracking of project results and implementation progress and risks. It will also allow a project to undertake necessary adjustments to address implementation issues and data gaps and would be useful during ex-post project evaluation, in terms of a more systematic aggregation and assessment of data and information collected via the system.

Project Number: 40534-013
Project Name: Second Crop Diversification Project
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The IA, the Infrastructure Development Company Limited, could have entered into strategic partnerships with other international organizations to further improve its skill and capacity given the complexity of activities in infrastructure.

Project Number: 40517-013, 40517-042
Project Name: Public–Private Infrastructure Development Facility
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Unrealistic and overambitious indicators in the DMF should have been raised during the implementation for corrective actions.

Project Number: 40517-013, 40517-042
Project Name: Public–Private Infrastructure Development Facility
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A well-designed program, strong working relationships with regulatory agencies, adequately funded additional TA grant, and properly sequenced policy actions are important factors for success, all of which were shown in CMDP II.

Project Number: 43477-013
Project Name: Second Capital Market Development Program
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Indicators should have been added to measure the portfolio quality of SME lending by PFIs and its impacts on the performance of borrowing SMEs, such as their assets, profitability, and employment.

Project Number: 36200-013
Project Name: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project
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Indicators should have been added in the design and monitoring framework to measure the level of investor confidence.

Project Number: 36197-013
Project Name: Improvement of Capital Market and Insurance Governance Project
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No additional lessons

Project Number: 32467-013
Project Name: Chittagong Hill Tracts Rural Development Project
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